Kanitra Fletcher

Kanitra Fletcher is Associate Curator of African American and Afro-Diasporic Art at the National Gallery of Art. Fletcher came to Washington from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, where she oversaw the presentation of such major traveling exhibitions as Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power and Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture and organized the U.S. tour of Afro-Atlantic Histories. Fletcher’s previous museum experience includes the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Museum of Modern Art, and New Museum of Contemporary Art. Since 2013, she has curated the video art program for Landmarks, the public art program of the University of Texas at Austin. She received a PhD in History of Art from Cornell University.

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